In one twenty-four hour interval, a months average amount of rain fell in the the mountains north of the Rio de Janeiro. This region in Brazil got drowned in over ten inches of rain over the course of one day. At around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning, tons of earth slid through Brazilian mountain towns. The hardest hit city was Teresopolis, totaling around 150 deaths alone, but the the total death toll stand at about 407. 13,500 people have now been declared homeless and Brazil has assembled an 800-men search and rescue team to find over 50 missing souls. Heavy rains are expected to continue as the weekend progresses and mudslides and flooding are still an imminent danger for this region.
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